BlastWave's Gallery - Airships Over Horoa

[BlastWave 203]

Hello everyone,

 

I've been a long time user of Paint.NET and lurker of the forum. I'm a fan of military modeling and designs and use Paint.NET to draw and shade the various vehicles and pixel/sprite style soldiers I make. I've been using this program for around 7 years now, so I feel like I should probably make a thread here for some of the stuff I've made. 

 

To start, here's some of my recent scenes. Click each for their full resolution.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 20, 2018 by BlastWave

[Pixey 3,880]

Hi @BlastWave  and Welcome to the forum.  These images are wonderful and each one tells a different story.  I love the fire blast effect, in the first one, and some of those vehicles are amazing.  Great work indeed .

[AndrewDavid 625]

4 hours ago, BlastWave said:

I'm a fan of military modeling and designs

Welcome @BlastWave  

Your artwork is fantastic. I see you play with the aircraft fonts as well  

Exactly the level I hope to achieve.

Only been using paint for 3 months - 6 years and 9 months to go. 

A tut on your Starship would be much appreciated.

[Woodsy 844]

Incredible work there BlastWave! I particularly like the 8th one down (the one with the trees ). You've got 2 years on me and it shows! Really looking forward to more additions to your gallery. The tractor is very well done also!

Edited April 30, 2017 by Woodsy

[Seerose 4,026]

 Hi @BlastWave!

 

Welcome to the forum. All the pictures work are very nice.  I particularly like the 1th one.  
 

[hippiechos 73]

Great work! They look like they'd make a great graphic novel.

[Beta0 85]

They're really good. My favorite is the second one. It shows that the rotor is in motion. And the use of colors (from dark to light) and blur aid in perspective.

 

Oh, almost forgot. Welcome to the forum! X]

Edited May 1, 2017 by Beta0

[BlastWave 203]

Thank you all very much for the feedback and the warm welcome.

 

@AndrewDavid I don't really have a tutorial for these, but I do have some timelapses and a WIP of one of my tanks. It essentially starts with a really rough black and white sketch of the design done in Microsoft Paint, I then trace and clean it up and begin the linework after that, when I finally am satisfied with the detailing, I take it into Paint.NET and start coloring it in and shade it using various layer modes.

 

Here is kind of a progress photo of an old sci-fi tank I did.

 

This is the finished product, if I remember, it took about 2 days to finish.

 

 

Here are two timelapses of the ships:

 

http://i.imgur.com/YfRHTh7.gif

http://i.imgur.com/PsUCYUV.gif

 

Finally, here's all the spaceships I've done so far:

 

Edited July 8, 2017 by BlastWave

[AndrewDavid 625]

Thanks for sharing your artwork @BlastWaveWe are so on the same page. I'm learning to do exactly what you have done.  Make sure you check out Shapemaker to see what I did yesterday to begin my process. A shape is always a good starting point. Paint on! 

[Beta0 85]

@BlastWave You're welcome.  I just saw your workflow (process and timelapses.) That's impressive. X]

[Ego Eram Reputo 2,406]

5 hours ago, BlastWave said:

Here are two timelapses of the ships:

 

http://i.imgur.com/YfRHTh7.gif

http://i.imgur.com/PsUCYUV.gif

 

Damn, that's impressive! Its fabulous to see a sketch come to life like that.

[hippiechos 73]

Amazing @BlastWave! You have a lot of skill. Those timelapses are incredible. 

[Pixey 3,880]

I echo what @hippiechos said + wow

[Joshua Lamusga 228]

Teach me, master.

(I really like your atmosphere and the tank in the clearing is a great example. I've attempted to nominate it for the galleria.)

Edited May 6, 2017 by Joshua Lamusga

[Drydareelin 222]

Fantastic artwork. I like the silhouette helicopter picture specially due to the shape, lighting and movement effects you've used. Keep it up!

[BlastWave 203]

Thank you all very much. I'm really happy you liked the timelapses.

 

And thank you @Joshua Lamusga for the attempt at a nomination to the galleria!

 

Since you guys liked them so much, I've decided to do some more of them. To start, here is a scene I actually did for a friend last Christmas.

 

 

Timelapse: http://i.imgur.com/oXEZQOX.gif

 

The enormous armored bulldozer in my first post, separate from the scene. Note the little soldier for scale.

 

Timelapse: http://i.imgur.com/ZhFH4Jc.gif

 

A little World War I fighter biplane, a mix of 3-4 real life WWI fighter planes.

 

 

Timelapse:

 

 

Finally, last but not least, here are three random 1940s/50 race planes.

 

 

Timelapse: http://i.imgur.com/l9coG6f.gif

 

Timelapse: http://i.imgur.com/zvk1a62.gif

 

Timelapse: http://i.imgur.com/VjVkBC6.gif

Edited July 8, 2017 by BlastWave

[Woodsy 844]

Incredible time lapses Blastwave!

[hippiechos 73]

Incredible work, @BlastWave! You are a master of vehicles. 

[BlastWave 203]

Thank you all!

 

Here's another scene, this one of some special forces/troops out in the jungle. Just a quick test for various jungle foliage.

 

 

Instead of a timelapse this time, here's a layer breakdown: http://i.imgur.com/97CO0RR.gif

Edited July 8, 2017 by BlastWave

[Joshua Lamusga 228]

Holy cow, your trees are marvelous. I can't get over your work. Followed and +1.

Edited May 10, 2017 by Joshua Lamusga

[AndrewDavid 625]

Another great picture you have shared with the community. Thank you so much. Your work is highly encouraging to us newbies. Thanks for sharing.

Digging them out of your vault or your most recent work? 

[BlastWave 203]

On 5/10/2017 at 1:43 AM, Joshua Lamusga said:

Holy cow, your trees are marvelous. I can't get over your work. Followed and +1.

Thank you Joshua! 

 

On 5/10/2017 at 7:21 AM, AndrewDavid said:

Another great picture you have shared with the community. Thank you so much. Your work is highly encouraging to us newbies. Thanks for sharing.

Digging them out of your vault or your most recent work? 

 

Thanks Andrew. Yep, that is my latest work at the moment. Here's something from the vaults.

This one here is from last week.

Edited July 8, 2017 by BlastWave

[Woodsy 844]

Yes! Your trees are great! I'm wondering how you made them. 

I like your layer breakdown better than the timelapses.

[hippiechos 73]

@BlastWave - I love how you manage to get such depth into your images. They are wonderful. 

[Seerose 4,026]

 @BlastWave!   

 

   Beautiful and creative presented - love this! Thank you so much.